You may have heard this from someone else but rather than starting a dozen threads in a short period of time, it would be more polite to run a general "looking to buy & outfit a TC, many questions" thread and just add your new questions to this. Running many threads at once is like hogging the conversation as it pushes other folks' recent post to the back pages. And it can have the opposite effect from what you desire as folks will see that you're flooding the forum and ignore your posts. One of those people may be just the person you needed to reach to answer a question.
That said, welcome to the TC forum and I wish you luck in your search. From the one thread I did read, I think a TC will suit you fairly well. The friends will have to be very comfortable with you to travel together in a TC though :C
Phyllis